Why do they call the California state flower "Gloden Poppy"?

I just had to ask that question because i really want to kno the answer.

Why do they call the California state flower "Gloden Poppy"?
California Indians cherished the poppy as both a source of food and for oil extracted from the plant. Its botanical name, Eschsholtzia californica, was given by Adelbert Von Chamisso, a naturalist and member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, who dropped anchor in San Francisco in 1816 in a bay surrounded by hills of the golden flowers. Also sometimes known as the flame flower, la amapola, and copa de oro (cup of gold), the poppy grows wild throughout California. It became the state flower in 1903. http://www.library.ca.gov/history/cahins...





Maybe there is a reason it grows wild in California; maybe it has not always grown wild there. I think it was planted there . .. .and native to possibly India, or it could have been the islands to the left of there where it originated. I could tell what I see as the mystery of the Golden Poppy; but it might differ from your own dreams or history. Because to know why it's the state flower, you might be interested in why it grows there also.





Personally I think it should be changed to something else.
Reply:its the GOLDEN poppy or california poppy.
Reply:because it's a poppy and it's a golden color.....
Reply:California is known as the golden state. History tells us that early americans travelled to the west particularly to California to look for gold. Becuase California is known as the "Golden State", the state flower which is the california poppy is then called "the Golden Poppy.

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